well all of the meals
were pretty good some were warm some were hot some were spicy somewhere crispy some were crispy
it's good some had layers of flavor some had unexpected surprises so we have
after a lot of debate
determined
a winner
best meal cam competition
does belong
welcome to the x hanger my name is clay here at expedition overland and you're watching the very
first starts of the all new series out and about if you're canadian you pronounce it in the boots
but today we are going for the first time with a whole team which is kind of a unique
thing for this series but it's all about us here at expedition overland being able to
get out more often on this particular trip we've got brendan head of editing we've got jimmy our
content director tanner as you well know from the show myself my wife rachelle and andy our
social media guy and we are going to be heading out and as part of us even getting to know each
other because a lot of these people are new we're going to have a cook-off so we've partnered up
i think it's jimmy and andy are together in raven brendan and tanner are in x3 the white tacoma and
they're going to be cooking together as a team we're going to have a little competition to see
who can make the best meal so stay tuned for that for now gotta get to camp come with us
there we go andy what's happening
this is where it's like pinch me i'm working it's thursday it's thursday
we got deer on the road coming into this turn
after plotting our route on onex it's going to take us about two hours to get to camp
at least the camp we want to get to
it's spring in the northern rockies a fact that means the mountain snowpack is still around to
present a formidable obstacle to anyone wishing to head into the high country this time of year with
just over a mile to go we will reach our chosen campsite we find the road covered by deep wet snow
andy and jimmy decide to take on the challenge all right
got this man gotta go go raven go go rave and go yeah way to give it some goose
there you go right side looks lower yeah we're done
keep going keep going going into this snow pack it probably would have been a good idea to air down
tires first considering thin hard crust on top was covering the soft sandy snow underneath they've
gone at it with a disadvantage going uphill and not using the full potential of the vehicle
michelle and i decided not to tell them beforehand because this way these guys are going to walk out
with a story remember when you're stuck you're stuck
call it max tracks looks like it's time for max tracks
no worries oh yeah look at him sink deep down let's know that's deep post on
this is the first time these guys have ever used max tracks
instead of helping rachelle and i decide to sit back in the warm cab of attican
and watch the show i used to have a rule when i would go out with buddies
if you say i'm going to try it one more time you're not allowed to and that probably is why
sounds like we're gonna give it one more shot with the max tracks
jimmy and uh andy are feeling pretty confident don't be afraid to pick up a max tracks and
throw it under a tire once you get going if it when this works i believe in them
so we're going to drop it down it's going to give us more surface area a little bit
more bite in this snow um it's gonna like i said just gonna give us one more additional leg up to
the uh to the snow so we'll see how it goes so now it's showing that both the front around 40.
didn't even try with andy and jimmy's excellent adventure lasting longer than any of us
expected in the twilight of the evening we get the whole team turned around and arrive
at a contingency campsite where our grumbling bellies wait for the cooking competition to begin
there this is some pulled pork i made a while back i don't remember when i made it
but i vacuum sealed the leftovers for this exact situation of taking it out camping totally playing
quick and easy yeah bring so we're gonna do pulled pork sandwiches with pepper jack cheese barbecue
sauce we got potato chips we got potato salad and now for the rules of the first ex overland
out and about cooking challenge there are none well i guess that's not entirely true the only
rule we have around here is to simply have a good time in camp cooking and eating with our teammates
so we have a marie colander razzleberry fruit pie that we're going to try to put
in the dutch oven and bake no idea if it's going to work but we're going to try it
yeah we might have sabotaged them hey that's your own lunch or sabotage
did you need this open for life you want some on that side or just no it's okay
let's do just a little bit more there position between the hot pork and the freezing cold fun
that was fully intentional like smoky fully planted yes smoky hickory in there
yeah with the brown sugar and the barbecue with the jalapeno with a jalapeno potato chip
it's cooking well on the outside i don't know about the inside but it's probably good that
we moved it up we'll see how edible it is when we're done two hours later
baby
it's like super flaky it's so good
oh man all right we need to we need we need to do we need to see the proof we just had a terrible
camera moment where our camera didn't record all of us eating all of this and it was
it's awesome we're all in the habitat so
i guess that one's just for us but it is we still have some leftovers
we
that's great
that's for real you can't if you smell a vision taste division
regardless of the tone we tried to set up for the competition
we quickly realized that we were living in one of those british cooking shows
you know the ones that you secretly watch but don't tell anyone about
jimmy and andy can't help themselves from getting up early to go for the win
rachelle and i will just have to be okay with waking up to freshly brewed coffee
and hot cinnamon rolls appointing ourselves as camp chef judges is appearing to have been
a good idea how's the cooking competition going
you know what's going good didn't want to like make all the food before everybody got up this
morning so we're kind of working on some coffee in the first round of cinnamon rolls so it'll be good
it'll be good i'm excited to see how they come out um got fire on next is coffee we'll go from there
good morning
cinema noise and the swedish stove top cover we're whispering and keep things
quiet getting the morning started a few more team members are getting some disease
not quite ready yet but
interesting how was your first night in that snow shot
oh man it was the coolest thing ever i woke up and i'm like i'm not cold i don't have to like
crunch up in my sleeping bag it was really nice because we had double bosto heater and it was just
it's kind of like a whole new world in the x3 over there and so i just i couldn't help but enjoy it
um but no i still slept fantastic how was your guys's first night so trick oh great
that sounded like a baby likewise i mean the uh go fest i love that mattress we slept so well we
also ran the buddy here until we hopped in and when we got in it was like stepping into summer
hi you were with me all night
what was that
you guys are really outshining it doesn't look like a pie though i mean that that is true
i mean that that got me up early today this morning because i was thinking how am i
gonna beat that pie after i sat there all skeptical by the fire and then i loved it
good morning is it that
this is normal in our house by the way
the feedback i got from the team was that this trip was a life-changing experience
i guess it may have been for more than one reason however the goal was to get
out to know each other better and i think we accomplished that first
batch of cinnamon rolls okay so ready to go you can't have one
give it a good thank you all right so the question in the morning since i'm doing bacon here
is among the new team members and the old who is a crisp bacon person and who is a soggy bacon person
that's a personality profile right there so ready oh soggy bacon all day long
100 people exist you're crazy thank you i've been told that crispy all the way although when i was
a kid i did soggy right now we got a guest what is andy i'm a soggy baking kind of guy oh my god clay
you know i like them right in the middle i like them half and half like you got i like the
little crunchy bits but i like the fat to be uh a little soft and chewy yeah so i kind of like it
right there jimmy and andy cooked bacon and then they cooked more bacon and finally
they cooked even more bacon but eventually andy's famous breakfast skillet stir-fry appears complete
with eggs hash browns and something andy kept mentioning as a secret ingredient taking my first
bite i realized it has taken these guys about the same amount of time to bake breakfast as it did
for them to get themselves unstuck though ernest these guys clearly have a few things to learn
what's going on over here this is our secret weapon andy and i
we're gonna win and maybe we're being a little too competitive here
but we heard rochelle likes mimosas in the morning so we decided we would make her one
oh that probably gave our secret away andy and i have a special present for one of the judges
oh come on
we want to ensure our win you know i like where this is going so come
on we decided to just take it to the next level here in the in the competition yeah
i've seen enough there we go
just for the record we did pick up this cork and it is now one of our favorite keepsakes
from the competition the time has come for the cooking competition to be assessed because we
all want to go home because we're cold so we're going to as judges leave determine the winners
and leave okay i i think we have a winner do you have a winner
i i think we have a winner we've come to a decision
well all of the meals
were pretty good some were warm some were hot some were spicy somewhere crispy some were crispy it's
good some had layers of flavor some had unexpected surprises the pie the mimosa the fire so we have
after a lot of debate
determined
a winner the best meal the cam competition
does belong to the dinner crew oh man what did we get congratulations good good good game
good game good game yeah the winners yes get to share in the reward
which is a romance novel the last duke standing that's why we won you wanted us to read it you
you go ahead and you deserve the winners you deserve this competition it's charming
oh man congratulations we will cherish it and we'll read it together won't we
vampire stories next time we camp together yup campfire stories how did it feel to win
oh amazing i'm pretty stoked i mean this is the man that did everything
i just kind of took the credit you heated up the pulled pork you you heated it i mixed the meat
i mixed it you feed it to perfection he did the smoking of it so the taste of it had nothing to
do with me but i took credit i will say initial disappointment but i'm really proud of the guys
because they really pulled it together by cooking at home and bringing it here so with that being
said it was a great that's a great great effort i'm sad but i'm proud that we competed well
as you have probably guessed by now the win for the weekend is for the entire xo team
rolling out of camp rachelle tanner and i know the new team members a little better and andy
jim and brendan are getting to know us we've all had some adventure some new experiences
and most importantly lots of fun so please join us for episode 2 as we continue to get out and about
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